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Story of the week: The European Commission suffered another major defeat in its antitrust charges against Big Tech. The General Court of the European Union has dismissed the case against Amazon, which the EU executive accused of having received a special tax treatment from Luxembourg. The verdict is similar to another major antitrust case that concerned Apple and the Republic of Ireland. In both cases the court ruled that the Commission did not provide a sufficient legal basis for proving that the tax deal could be considered as state aid. The result of these legal proceedings raises doubts about whether the Commission’s antitrust investigations have teeth, and falls within a broader discussion on taxing web services. Listen to the podcast for more.
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WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update may be banned in EU – but app’s sights are fixed on India
Queen Mary University of London
The roll out of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook, received a blow on May 13 after German regulators temporarily banned the update. The regulators are now said to be seeking an EU-wide ban by presenting their case to the European Data Protection Board.
WhatsApp users will have noticed a recent intensification of pop-ups nudging them to agree to the app’s new terms of service. The cliff-edge deadline for users to accept these new terms – with WhatsApp announcing that those who failed to do so would lose functionality on the app – had been set for Saturday, May 15. That deadline was recently moved forward by “several weeks”.
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